News Digest
AZERBAIJAN RAISES DIESEL, HEATING OIL PRICES
By empty (1/9/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan\'s State Oil Company announced on 6 January increases of 100 percent or more, effective immediately, in the retail prices of diesel fuel, kerosene, and domestic heating oil. Diesel will now cost not 18 gyapiks but 36 gyapiks per liter (100 gyapiks = 1 redenominated manat = $0.9186).13 CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE IN DUSHANBE, 60 HOSPITALIZED
By empty (1/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A fire at an orphanage in the Tajik capital Dushanbe has left 13 children dead and 60 with serious burns. \"Thirteen children have been killed in the fire. Seventy-nine have been evacuated, 60 of them with burns and carbon monoxide poisoning\" the Tajik Interior Ministry\'s Fire Department Deputy Head Nazarboi Dzhangiyev told reporters at the scene.SOUTH OSSETIA PUBLISHES \'BLACKLIST\' OF GEORGIAN OFFICIALS...
By empty (1/7/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The leadership of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia released on 4 January an expanded version of its list of Georgian officials whose actions or statements it considers criminal. The initial list contained five names, and the expanded one 28. Heading the list is Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili, followed by Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili and Mikheil Kareli, governor of the region of Shida Kartli that theoretically encompasses South Ossetia.KAZAKH CASPIAN PORT SUFFERS MAJOR OIL SPILL
By empty (1/6/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An Azerbaijani-registered oil tanker spilled more than a ton of oil into the Caspian Sea at the Kazakh port of Aktau on 6 January. The Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry responded by trying to enclose the immediate area and launching cleanup operations. The immediate environmental damage from the spill has not yet been determined.Visit also
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